Since its inception, The National Peanut Board has invested more than $2,600,000 to improve peanut crops’ water efficiency

Agricultural Land Development

American peanut farmers have always been good stewards of the land

Improvements in Sustainability

USDA Data 1999-2013

Increased

Technology Adoption

50%

Decreased

Fertilizer use

42.5%

Water Use

33%

Pesticide Use

25%

Peanut farmers focus on growing the best crop, with the fewest added fertilizers and chemicals, because doing so makes both economic and environmental sense. The proof of this practice has been handed down with the land — most peanut farms in rural America are multigenerational, with families living and working the fields over generations and decades. Peanut farmers care for the land of their grandparents so they can hand it down to their grandchildren.

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